Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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With only 30 candidates out on the first day of practice, the smallest number ever reporting in the last ten years, the University and Freshman cross-country teams bid fair to suffer from lack of material unless more men come out within the next few days. The University runners have established a splendid cross-country record in the last decade of dual meets with Yale, losing only once in the whole period, and setting a standard that the succeeding teams will have to go far to equal...
...lions did not fail. 7,523 set behind them their personal desires. They left comforts and opportunities to face the most gigantic war which modern science could produce. They did not wait until convenience allowed them to go. They left the instant necessity called them. Since 1914 Harvard has bid her sons God-speed on this great adventure...
Aside from the obvious patriotism of such a cause, there are several reasons why all right-minded people should put all the money they can spare into Liberty Bonds. To insist on spending it for some thing which one does not really need is to bid against the Government for the man power, the fuel and the raw materials which it so much needs. All our money should be spent for something which is really needed either by the individual or by the Government, in order that all the man power and resources of the country may be employed where...
Although Worcester is said to have an unusually strong aggregation, the Freshman bid fair to give them a close contest and if present indications hold true stand an excellent chance to win the meet...
Military drill at the University must not be subordinated to athletics. Sports must serve their proper purpose of recreation from drill which with a more difficult military schedule this spring, they bid fair to do. Any ruling which militates against strict attendance at drills will tend to weaken the R. O. T. C. and the University Ensign School. We welcome Dean Briggs' insistence on the service requirement for eligibility and feel that our teams so constituted will be worthy of representing us against Yale and Princeton...